My parents have been Arsenal supporters their entire lives — following the team home and away, across England and Europe, through every era you can name. They're getting on a bit now, and the long trips don't appeal the way they used to.
I'd already been making aerial photographs of landscapes, and the obvious thing happened: I pointed the camera at football grounds instead. The greatest challenge with any of these pictures is finding the right way to photograph from on-high. I've stood on roofs, dangled from cranes, sat in light aircraft, helicopters and hot-air balloons, and used zoom lenses as long as my arm.
The tilt-shift lens is what gives the photographs their scale-model character. It's the same trick you'd use to isolate a single subject in a landscape — applied to a 92,000-seat stadium, it makes the whole ground feel like something you could hold in your hand.
What people make of them isn't really for me to say, so every one of the 23 recommendations we've been given on Facebook is reproduced word for word — the complete set rather than the flattering few. 100% of them recommend us.
If you want a print of a ground we don't yet have, get in touch — we add new grounds regularly and we're always interested in hearing where you want us next.
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